Year Five Medical Student abandons Studies to become Pastor

Year Five Medical Student abandons Studies to become Pastor

Solomon Akomolede has revealed how he left medicine after five years in the University of Ibadan to pursue his calling to be a pastor.

In a chat with Church Times, the 28-year-old said he left his studies in 2017 because he wanted a deeper walk with God. He however said his leaving school was not an instruction from God but a personal conviction.

Akomolede said he had started missing classes while he spent time in fellowship with God. He added that he knew he would not need the certificate so he opted to follow God outside the university.

The pastor, who said he gave his life to Christ while he was in primary two, dismissed insinuations that poor performance had made him dropout of school. He revealed that he had scored 302 in his Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and had As and Bs in his secondary school examinations.

He said he his will to know God more had started after he lost his father in his second year in UI.

“I had a history that started the whole thing. That was when I lost my daddy. We just resumed the second year at the University of Ibadan and was told that my dad had died. After we buried him I got back to school and I was just wondering and saying to myself that if I had known God more he would not have died.

“That was how it started. I then went to my friend who was more spiritual to seek his counsel and to also share with him my desire to know God more. Before I went to him, I had been speaking in tongues. But the moment he prayed with me I started experiencing some sparks and ignition into the things of the spirit. I discovered a tingling sensation through my hands and later discovered that it was the gift of healing.

“I saw the love of God demonstrated and I just said to myself who am I of all the people in the world to be given the gift of healing. It was this demonstration of God’s love that moved me. I came out of that experience overwhelmed with the love of God and I felt the way to reciprocate that love is to love Him more,” he said.

Akomolede said things were initially rough for him but God had opened doors for him to make a living. He narrated how he had ministered to a woman in South Africa, how she got healed through him and how it led to him being invited to minister in foreign countries.

He added that God also instructed him to turn his teachings into books. He said he has written 13 books so far.

He also said he had healed a Cameroonian and some other  COVID-19 patients via telephone calls.

Akomolede, on if he would start his own church, said he would rather concentrate on building a ministry where people would get trained. He also revealed that he plans getting married later this year.